Creating And Managing Website Connections; Creating A Contribute Website Connection - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE-USING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

Creating and Managing Website Connections

After you have installed Macromedia Contribute, you must create a connection to a website
before you can begin to edit its pages.
This chapter describes how to use the Contribute Connection Wizard to create a connection. It
also describes how to set sitewide settings for a website, and how to rename and remove website
connections after you set them up.
After you've created the website connection, you can create permission groups (see "Managing
User Settings and Permissions" on page 165), and then export your connection information into
a file, called a connection key, that you can e-mail to users (see Chapter 16, "Sharing Website
Connections," on page 181).
This chapter contains the following sections:
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"Creating a Contribute website connection" on page 143
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"Becoming an administrator of an existing Contribute website" on page 151
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"Configuring sitewide settings" on page 153
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"About advanced sitewide settings" on page 156
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"Managing website connections" on page 161
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"Managing Contribute sites using Dreamweaver MX" on page 164

Creating a Contribute website connection

The Contribute Connection Wizard guides you through the steps to create a new connection to a
website, prompting you for the information needed to establish a website connection. Before you
begin, gather the following information:
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Your user name and e-mail address
The user name and e-mail address identify users and the web pages they are working on.
Contribute prevents multiple users from simultaneously editing the same web page.
(Contribute uses a system much like the Macromedia Dreamweaver check in/check out system
to avoid editing conflicts.)
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Web address (URL) of the website
A website's Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is its address either on the Internet or on the
local network of an organization's intranet. Website URLs usually have the following form:
http://www.mysite.com/
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